10 Reasons
Michael Anissimov :: August 2004

10 Reasons to Consider Living as Long as Possible

1. Because there's plenty of room in the universe.
2. Because eighty years isn't enough to try much out.
3. Because death is so final.
4. Because you'll get to see what happens next week.
5. Because a few thousand friends isn't enough.
6. Because you can then join the project to turn Earth into a Heaven.
7. Because boredom can't prevail against a flow of new, interesting places and people.
8. Because aging and death are for primitive civilizations.
9. Because your loved ones don't deserve to see you perish.
10. Because if you don't like it, you can end it at any time.

10 Reasons to Enhance Human Intelligence

1. Because stupidity stops being funny after a while.
2. Because sitting in school can be torture.
3. Because if we don't, somebody else will.
4. Because it's part of our species growing up.
5. Because people are suffering due to their own ignorance.
6. Because people are suffering due to the elite's ignorance.
7. Because dumb people don't know what they're missing.
8. Because it's the best way to improve our society.
9. Because our brains were meant to be upgraded.
10. Because it will soon be technologically practical.

10 Reasons to Develop Safe Nanotechnology

1. Because killing sentient animals is an cruel way to transform grass into meat.
2. Because fossil fuels are a pain in the ass.
3. Because humans can't fly without strapping ourselves into a rigid hunk of metal.
4. Because our houses and cities are too boring.
5. Because conventional manufacturing destroys the environment.
6. Because people shouldn't have to work at jobs that can be automated.
7. Because biology can do it, so should we.
8. Because everyone deserves food, shelter, and clean water.
9. Because it's about time we cleaned up the mess humans have made.
10. Because nanotechnology is coming whether we like it or not, so it might as well be safe.

10 Reasons to Develop Safe Artificial Intelligence

1. Because human cultures aren't exotic enough.
2. Because intelligence should be fluid, not rigid.
3. Because we need someone to help us organize the data we're drowning in.
4. Because aliens aren't showing up, we should make our own.
5. Because a virtual world would be a cool place to grow up in.
6. Because we need new perspectives and thinkers.
7. Because it would be interesting to engineer new emotions.
8. Because sci-fi stereotypes need to be shattered.
9. Because humans are often biased away from the common good.
10. Because AI is coming whether we like it or not, so it might as well be safe.


10 Reasons to Learn About Science and Technology

1. Because it has the potential to save millions of lives.
2. Because so many popular beliefs are empirically unsound.
3. Because it's the only way to significantly move our entire civilization forward.
4. Because science just means "stuff we know" and technology just means "stuff we can do".
5. Because it's the foundation and context of all other human affairs.
6. Because it makes the main difference between cavemen and modern man.
7. Because ignorance is nothing to be proud of.
8. Because it's challenging and useful.
9. Because progress in science and technology is exponentially accelerating.
10. Because our future depends on it.

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